192. put on the black.
b.
Of b, which was obtained some twenty years after a was written down, Mrs Thomson says: Enclosed is the whole of the ballad, as I had it from my mother.... She never sang those two verses to us [5, 6]. She only repeated them to me when Dean Christie wanted the ballad. We may, perhaps, infer from these last words that the ballad was originally taken down by the daughter from her mother’s recitation, and not by Dean Christie. It is to be observed that the mother was still living in 1890, but when b was committed to paper is not said.
a
83, 4, 91, 2, are wanting in b; b has a stanza, an inevitable one, which a lacks, in answer to 13.
11. It’s we were sisters and.
13. Some got dukes.
14. got men.
15. But I: Earl Crawford.
16. a meet.